myorigins results

[A Faria]

Hello Everyone,


I thought I would post an update now that I have my mothers myorigins  results in l I have also  ordered a kit for one of my daughters I will update when it comes in.

My Results

69% Southern Europe
15% Scandinavia
12% British Isles
05% North Africa

My Fathers Results

80% Southern Europe
08% British Isles
06% Scandinavia
05% North Africa

My Mothers Results

67% Southern Europe
23% Western and Central Europe
03% Eastern Europe
05% North Africa
02% East Central Africa(I do share SNP's with people with origins in Eritrea) it is located very close to the Middle East.

As I have posted many times my family is from Pico Island. One of the reasons that I chose to test all three of us was to get a better idea of our DNA.

I have discovered some interesting things.

As I expected most of the matches were to people from Pico, and quite a few with Faial and Sao Jorge, those are the nearest islands to Pico not surprising . But then it gets interesting I will list in order of frequency, next it jumps to Sao Miguel, then all the way to Flores, then Graciosa, Terceira, and Santa Maria we have no matches with Corvo. I really was expecting to have more matches with Graciosa and Terceira than Sao Miguel and Flores based on the recorded history and the proximity of those two islands with Pico. It really does look like we are one big extended family in the Azores.  We also have many matches that appear to  not have Portuguese ancestry.

However I believe most of the Middle Eastern portion of our DNA is swallowed up by the Southern Europe category that issue will hopefully be resolved if  FTDNA  includes a Sephardic Jewish population in myorigins for comparison.
 
Antonio Faria

[A Faria]

These are our Gedmatch results using the Jtest calculator.  It picks up some things that myorigins doesn't.

My Results.

opulation
SOUTH_BALTIC	7.74%
EAST_EURO	4.86%
NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO	16.43%
ATLANTIC	24.18%
WEST_MED	21.48%
ASHKENAZI	6.83%
EAST_MED	8.40%
WEST_ASIAN	4.03%
MIDDLE_EASTERN	4.15%
SOUTH_ASIAN	-
EAST_AFRICAN	0.59%
EAST_ASIAN	-
SIBERIAN	-
WEST_AFRICAN	1.32%
My Fathers Results Population   SOUTH_BALTIC 8.38% EAST_EURO 4.15% NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 16.91% ATLANTIC 26.07% WEST_MED 20.58% ASHKENAZI 5.61% EAST_MED 8.39% WEST_ASIAN -     MIDDLE_EASTERN 7.90% SOUTH_ASIAN -     EAST_AFRICAN 0.97% EAST_ASIAN 0.27% SIBERIAN -     WEST_AFRICAN 0.76%   My Mothers Results. Population   SOUTH_BALTIC 5.87% EAST_EURO 6.70% NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 16.71% ATLANTIC 23.30% WEST_MED 21.77% ASHKENAZI 8.40% EAST_MED 8.41% WEST_ASIAN 1.30% MIDDLE_EASTERN 4.74% SOUTH_ASIAN -     EAST_AFRICAN 1.17% EAST_ASIAN -     SIBERIAN -     WEST_AFRICAN 1.64%

 

[nancy jean baptiste]

Hi Antonio,

My paternal uncle, John Cardoza Baptiste is a FF match to your mother, Maria Faria, 39.00 shared cm as a 3rd to 5th cousin. She does not show as a match to me. On this line we are from Pico, Sao Jorge and Santa Maria.

Regards,

Nancy Jean Baptista 

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[A Faria]

Hi Nancy,

Yes I see it they are a match do you know which line traces to Pico  although we share nine different segments the longest segment is 13.66CM so it may be traceable on paper.

[Anthony Soares]

Hello Antonio,

  

   I noticed on Gedmatch that I match to both you and your mother. My Portuguese side is from Terciera I have not found a Pico link yet. I will have to see if you show up in my FF list on FTDNA.

Tony Soares

[A Faria]

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for letting me know I think it's really neat that I share DNA with people from so many islands. I don't have as many matches with people with Terceira ancestry as I thought I would. I have one Moniz ancestor that moved to Angra after his wife passed away in 1768  and ended up passing away there  I assumed he may have been born there. I was hoping to be able to confirm that with matches.

http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=Lajes;lang=en;p=antonio;n=moniz;oc=2

[A Faria]

Here is a link for the Gedmatch Jtest averages for select populations, the average Ashkenazi result for Portuguese people in their sample is 5.56%.

http://bga101.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/eurogenes-ashkenazim-ancestry-test-files.html

Antonio

[Edna Epps]

I don't really know what this all means but...this is what the Gedmatch Jtest showed on my DNA:

Population
SOUTH_BALTIC	7.17%
EAST_EURO	3.54%
NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO	19.38%
ATLANTIC	26.14%
WEST_MED	17.11%
ASHKENAZI	7.33%
EAST_MED	10.20%
WEST_ASIAN	0.66%
MIDDLE_EASTERN	5.22%
SOUTH_ASIAN	-
EAST_AFRICAN	2.26%
EAST_ASIAN	-
SIBERIAN	-
WEST_AFRICAN	0.98%

Edna

dave...@comcast.net

[ISAIAH 26:3]

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, who mind is stayed on thee:

because he trusteth in thee.

 

[Edna Epps]

Here are my Gedmatch results using the Eurogenes EUtest V2K15 model"

Population
North_Sea	23.69%
Atlantic	29.30%
Baltic	8.14%
Eastern_Euro	1.13%
West_Med	16.40%
West_Asian	2.87%
East_Med	11.96%
Red_Sea	2.11%
South_Asian	-
Southeast_Asian	-
Siberian	-
Amerindian	-
Oceanian	0.18%
Northeast_African	3.54%
Sub-Saharan	0.66%

Edna Lemos Epps

dave...@comcast.net

[ISAIAH 46:4   NIV]

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am

He who will sustain you.  I have made you and I will

carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

 

On Dec 28, 2014, at 12:52 PM, A Faria <antoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

[A Faria]

If you click oracle it will kick out a list of Primary and secondary populations that most closely approximate your results on this particular ancestry calculator.

 This is my result for the Jtest keep in mind that the results may not be a perfect representation of your actual ancestry. I approach it by keeping in mind the actual groups that contributed to the makeup of Azorean ancestry. Unfortunately most of the suggested populations are abbreviated.

Jtest Oracle results:

Jtest Oracle population reference data revised 06 Nov 2012. 

Kit F159166

Admix Results (sorted):

#	Population	Percent
1	ATLANTIC	24.18
2	WEST_MED	21.48
3	NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO	16.43
4	EAST_MED	8.4
5	SOUTH_BALTIC	7.74
6	ASHKENAZI	6.83
7	EAST_EURO	4.86
8	MIDDLE_EASTERN	4.15
9	WEST_ASIAN	4.03
10	WEST_AFRICAN	1.32
11	EAST_AFRICAN	0.59

Single Population Sharing:

#	Population (source)	Distance
1	ES	4.62
2	PT	4.91
3	FR	7.87
4	North_Italian	8.62
5	Tuscan	13.67
6	AT	15.97
7	Cornish	16.19
8	West_&_Central_German	17.1
9	NL	17.27
10	French_Basque	17.52
11	English	17.77
12	RO	18.28
13	Serbian	18.49
14	IE	18.9
15	Orcadian	18.97
16	HU	19.2
17	Scottish	19.84
18	DK	20.76
19	NO	22.59
20	South_&_Central_Swedish	23.18

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

#		Primary Population (source)			Secondary Population (source)			Distance
1		92.7%	ES	+	7.3%	Lezgin	@	3.03
2		94%	ES	+	6%	GE	@	3.3
3		85.6%	ES	+	14.4%	RO	@	3.5
4		94.9%	ES	+	5.1%	Kalash	@	3.58
5		87%	ES	+	13%	HU	@	3.67
6		86.7%	ES	+	13.3%	Serbian	@	3.7
7		95.1%	ES	+	4.9%	Balochi	@	3.74
8		91.8%	ES	+	8.2%	AJ	@	3.74
9		95.1%	ES	+	4.9%	Brahui	@	3.76
10		93.3%	ES	+	6.7%	TR	@	3.77
11		94.3%	ES	+	5.7%	Kurdish	@	3.79
12		93.4%	ES	+	6.6%	Erzya	@	3.8
13		94.3%	ES	+	5.7%	IR	@	3.8
14		92.5%	ES	+	7.5%	Ukrainian-Russian	@	3.82
15		92.5%	ES	+	7.5%	West_Russian	@	3.85
16		94.4%	ES	+	5.6%	Armenian	@	3.85
17		95.6%	ES	+	4.4%	Burusho	@	3.86
18		93.1%	ES	+	6.9%	East_Russian	@	3.87
19		86%	ES	+	14%	AT	@	3.88
20		94%	ES	+	6%	Udmurt	@	3.89

[A Faria]

My results indicate that my primary source of DNA is closest to Spain closely followed by Portugal .

Then I look at the results when two populations are used I look at the number under Distance, I know that my actual ancestry is Portuguese the calculator gives me a score of 4.91 the closest to the number 0 the closer the match.

There are only two secondary populations that are close to my actual ancestry AT(Austrian) somewhat similar to Flemish and AJ(Ashkenazi Jews) very similar to Sephardic Jews. Sephardic Jews and Flemings contributed to the DNA of Azoreans so I consider those results significant.

When I look at my mixed mode results when two populations are used I consider the results for numbers #8 and #19 very significant because it includes populations close to groups that have contributed to the DNA of Azoreans.

The score for #8 is 3.74 and for #19 3.88 That is a closer match to my particular blend of DNA than Spain or Portugal. I consider that a clue to my possible ancestry.

That is how I personally use this tool.

[Anthony Soares]

These are the results of my Jtest from Gedmatch. The whole reason I am researching this is one day my sister told me someone from her church told her her Maiden name was Shephardic, well this jogged my memory to something that I forgot had happened. Back in '06 when I was in Iraq we were on a little Combat Outpost with some Iraqi Army and there was a little dispute between one of the Iraqi Soldiers and one of my guy's. Once we found an Iraqi that could speak some english we got it settled,well any way there were four of us and a few of them. He pointed to the other guys with me and said you Ameriki then pointed at me and said your Jew, I said no I'm Portuguese, He shrugged and said your Jew and they walked away. 

 

Admix Results (sorted):

 

#	Population	Percent
1	ATLANTIC	23.12
2	NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO	21.34
3	WEST_MED	16.84
4	EAST_MED	10.05
5	SOUTH_BALTIC	9.76
6	EAST_EURO	8.69
7	ASHKENAZI	4.54
8	MIDDLE_EASTERN	2.89
9	WEST_ASIAN	2.14

 

 

Finished reading population data. 78 populations found.

14 components mode.

 

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Least-squares method.

 

Using 1 population approximation:

1 FR @ 4.916120

2 PT @ 8.466794

3 ES @ 9.748961

4 AT @ 11.667981

5 West_&_Central_German @ 11.875484

6 NL @ 12.520222

7 Cornish @ 12.597495

8 North_Italian @ 12.609478

9 English @ 13.519628

10 Orcadian @ 15.692276

11 IE @ 16.022589

12 Serbian @ 16.238813

13 DK @ 16.378597

14 HU @ 16.954399

15 Scottish @ 17.166000

16 Tuscan @ 17.797735

17 RO @ 18.234064

18 NO @ 18.565285

19 South_&_Central_Swedish @ 19.095751

20 North_Swedish @ 21.965389

 

Using 2 populations approximation:

1 50% PT +50% West_&_Central_German @ 3.359095

 

 

Using 3 populations approximation:

1 50% ES +25% NL +25% Serbian @ 2.205102

 

 

Using 4 populations approximation:

1 ES + FR + North_Swedish + Tuscan @ 1.761447

2 English + ES + ES + Serbian @ 1.848222

3 DK + ES + ES + Serbian @ 1.878541

4 English + ES + PT + Serbian @ 1.883941

5 DK + ES + PT + Serbian @ 2.083688

6 Cornish + ES + PT + Serbian @ 2.172051

7 FR + North_Swedish + PT + Tuscan @ 2.186778

8 ES + ES + NL + Serbian @ 2.205102

9 Cornish + PT + PT + Serbian @ 2.247673

10 ES + NL + PT + Serbian @ 2.307318

11 English + PT + PT + Serbian @ 2.334123

12 ES + Orcadian + PT + Serbian @ 2.389020

13 ES + North_Italian + North_Swedish + PT @ 2.400312

14 DK + FR + North_Italian + PT @ 2.425793

15 FR + North_Italian + North_Swedish + PT @ 2.447107

16 ES + FR + NO + Tuscan @ 2.455767

17 IE + PT + PT + Serbian @ 2.461470

18 ES + IE + PT + Serbian @ 2.461982

19 ES + ES + Serbian + West_&_Central_German @ 2.474127

20 North_Italian + North_Swedish + PT + PT @ 2.475996

 Tony Soares

[A Faria]

Interesting story I've wondered about possible partial Jewish ancestry in my case for over 20 years I've been asked countless times if I was Jewish that is also why I started looking.  My maternal grandfather looked like Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Minister of Israel.

I don't think these calculators are precise yet as far as the percentages go for groups with diverse ancestry such as Portuguese people  they have a long ways to go but I think they are useful in identifying which groups have contributed DNA.

The other issue is that most people think of ancestry as being in a genealogical time frame, in the case of Azoreans within the last 300-500 years depending on how far your paper trail goes. Some of the DNA that MyOrigins is picking up could be from thousands of years back, deep ancestry rather than recent ancestry.

[Anthony Soares]

Yes I have some cousins who when I tried to get them to do DNA asked why? They said like you they have had suspicions for years,but unfortunately declined to do the DNA. I was hoping they would as they are the only set who have all four Grandparents from the Açores. I have recently confirmed Ashkenazi on my maternal (non Portuguese) side. With some prodding  Mom fessed up to the family secret and told us,of course we had already learned thru our Aunt that it was our G Grand Mother who had stopped actively practicing the jewish Faith in that line. I have not worked my Maternal line at all as have been busy with Dad's,but we do have a pretty good start from a tree my aunt  did while in college,this is where we learned of the Ashkenazi line.

 

  I agree with you on the calculators regarding diversity in the Portuguese people as well DNA that MyOrigins is picking  up being possibly thousands of years old. That is what I was trying to point out in my post about the Jewish Diaspora. As these Jews Migrated through the Northern Mediterranean on their way to the Iberian Peninsula,They likely picked up some DNA through intermarriage. That would explain Italy,Greece ETC. The same with the Jews who migrated along the Northern coast of Africa,When the Muslim Moors from North Africa Conquered Southern Iberia, North African Jews came with them along with DNA that had picked up there. That would explain the Libyan Jew and Moroccan Jew and North African that shows up. Now the Jews who went east to Mesopotamia/Iraq/South West Asia would only match to the Jewish DNA, but that would still explain a distant connection. As for the Ashkenazi there are two possible routes to connect :1 the connection prior the split in Italy when the group who would become Sheparim Migrated west to Iberia  and the group who would become Askenazi and (also inbred due to their small numbers) moved into eastern Europe and the Baltic States. This would explain Serbian,Bosnian,Romanian ETC. This group would bounce back and force between Eastern Europe and Western Europe due to persecution. The Ashkenazi were at times in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Flanders which borders France,Netherlands and makes up the Northwest of Belgium is where the Flemings come from. :2 here is the second connection to the Askenazi for the Azores, And it would explain some of the European Countries  and Baltic States that show up.

 Does any of this prove beyond a doubt that one is Shepardim? I doubt it,but it may give clues.

Regards

Tony

  

[Cheri Mello]

There are not that many Sephardic samples in FTDNA's database.  They would like to include more. Sounds easy, just go get some Sephardic samples, but the geneticists are scientists.  They need proof, so they are trying to find people with proven Sephardism.  So they are working on it.

Cheri

Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada

[A Faria]

Hi Cheri,

 

I was informed by someone that attended the recent talk in New York by Bennett Greenspan regarding the differences in Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestry that Doron Behar the geneticist at FTDNA has collected some samples of Sephardic Jews in North Africa. However there were problems with those samples the community they collected from was very admixed with Berber DNA, therefore  it was decided that FTDNA wouldn't use those samples for the Sephardic reference population.

 

I don't recall the exact details regarding plan B but it  now appears that FTDNA is working with someone in Israel to collect samples of Sephardic Jews in Israel. The person that informed me of this also got the sense that the it would take about a year before a Sephardic reference population would be ready for MyOrigins.

 

Antonio

 

[Cheri Mello]

Yep, that's what I was told.
Cheri

[Liz Migliori]

Please define Sephardic

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[Cheri Mello]

Sephardic: Jews from Spain and Portugal

Ashkenazi:  Jews from everywhere else

Neat Google trick:  Go to Google and type in

define: sephardic

(or define: word)

And it will retrieve the definition for you.

Of course you can use your favorite online dictionary too!  Or old, weather-worn book, for some of us!

Cheri

[Liz Migliori]

Watched an episode of Finding your roots, and it mentioned Sephardic Jews all being connected.

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[A Faria]

Who was the featured on the episode and what date did it premiere?

[Liz Migliori]

Jessica Alba and Alan Dersowhitz (spelled?).   And the governor of MA.   Showed how Because they both (Jessica and Alan) have Sephardic DNA the r related.  I believe Jessica had 7%.  Of course Alan is almost completely.  

Guess I'm related to them too,  I think I have 15%.  Lol 

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[Liz Migliori]

I just looked to see if it was still on demand and it's not. I think it was sometime in Nov.

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On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:48 PM, A Faria <antoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

[A Faria]

Anthony,

 

You are correct about the fact that the Jews married other groups. That  ocurred early on in Europe Hebrew men married heavily with Italian women. I have seen the Gedmatch results of several of my Jewish matches using several different calculators and they don't alway match most closely with  Ashenazi, sometimes they get results like 50% Ashenazi 50% Sicilian or Greek. Ashkenazi Jews are problably the most studied group and various studies indicate that about 30-50% of their Genome is European and most often clusters with Italian. But all the Jewish groups married some from outside of their community.

[Anthony Soares]

 Antonio,

 

 Yes that was the point I was trying to make,that the DNA was intermingled with the Jews in their migration towards the Azores. Though thousands of years old it still shows up in small amounts. Just out of curiosity if there were any other reasons some of these populations could be showing up in Portuguese DNA I did a quick  in google and came up with an interesting link. I had already known about the Romans ( they are where we get Hispania and Luso from ) , the Visigoths and the Suevi But there are some interesting tidbits that make it worth reading .http://www.ensignmessage.com/gadinspain.html

[A Faria]

It is true those populations contributed to the DNA of the Portuguese people,Gedmatch Eurogenes 36 will pick all  that up.  However  the oracle admixture calculators using a primary and secondary populations  should weed out that ancient admixture from skewing the results. If I recall the Roman historian Pliny the Elder identified all but 1 of the tribes in the borders that constitute modern day Portugal is either Celtic or Celticized, only one the Grovii were identified as Greek, the Grovii. Those Celtic tribes may have origins near the Alps. I think their contribution was significant. On one calculator Switzerland shows as my primary #1 population. Although my results consistently show a strong affinity with Italian populations sometimes more so than Iberian populations. Although ancient DNA contributions from the Romans, and Celts can explain some of that I should still show a tighter match to Portugal than I do unless I have some admixture, which I believe is the case.

The MDLP K23b Calculator is considered by many who have used it as the most accurate although it is far from perfect. The four populations it uses to approximate for ancestry I like to think of it in terms of four grandparents. The calculator kicks out the four populations that are closest to my blend of DNA. As my closest match it suggests two Iberian populations, English (which is very similar to the Flemish) and Sicilian(which the Gedmatch calculators sometimes have trouble distinguishing from  Ashkenazi Jews). Sometimes it suggests other Southern Italian or Greek populations and I believe a couple of times Romanian Jew. 

However if you notice the closest the calculator gets to my real blend followed by this symbol @ is 1.106954. It is unable to get to zero because my ancestry is more complex that the ancestry of those four populations. I suspect it it that the 5.35% North African(Berber DNA) is a bit high.  Here are my results to illustrate my point.


MDLP K23b Oracle Rev 2014 Sep 16

Admix Results (sorted):

#	Population	Percent
1	European_Early_Farmers	33.30
2	Caucasian	24.06
3	European_Hunters_Gatherers	22.60
4	North_African	5.35
5	Near_East	4.67
6	South_Central_Asian	3.74
7	Ancestral_Altaic	2.59

Finished reading population data. 620 populations found.
23 components mode.

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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:

1 Italian_Bergamo @ 7.656293
2 Portugese @ 8.318958
3 Italian_North @ 8.320575
4 Spanish_Baleares_IBS @ 8.743341
5 Italian_Piedmont @ 9.925784
6 French @ 10.227468
7 Spaniard @ 10.972955
8 Italian_Tuscan @ 11.645769
9 Spanish_Extremadura_IBS @ 12.092085
10 Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 12.301117
11 Spanish_Cataluna_IBS @ 13.058258
12 Spanish_Castilla_y_Leon_IBS @ 13.548665
13 Spanish_Murcia_IBS @ 14.067057
14 German-Volga @ 15.286911
15 English_Cornwall_GBR @ 15.347507
16 Kosovar @ 15.496705
17 Spanish_Canarias_IBS @ 15.510090
18 Welsh @ 15.695156
19 Greek_Northwest @ 15.801681
20 English_Kent_GBR @ 15.866534

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Italian_North +50% Portugese @ 2.205776


Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Italian_Tuscan +25% Norwegian_West +25% Spanish_Canarias_IBS @ 1.412024


Using 4 populations approximation:
1 English + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.106954
2 North_European + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.153037
3 Norwegian_West + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Murcia_IBS @ 1.207664
4 Dutch + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Extremadura_IBS + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.228640
5 Dutch + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Galicia_IBS + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.230143
6 Belgian + Portugese + Sicilian_Siracusa + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.234838
7 CEU + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.244260
8 Dutch + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Castilla_y_Leon_IBS + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.253083
9 English_Kent_GBR + Portugese + Romanian_Jew + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.260309
10 Icelandic + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Murcia_IBS @ 1.265543
11 CEU + Italian_South + Portugese + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.282766
12 Portugese + Scottish_Argyll_Bute_GBR + Sicilian_Center + Spaniard @ 1.295623
13 North_European + Portugese + Sicilian_Center + Spanish_Extremadura_IBS @ 1.297352
14 Maltese + Spanish_Baleares_IBS + Spanish_Murcia_IBS + Swede @ 1.298580
15 Italian_Bergamo + Maltese + Norwegian_West + Spanish_Castilla_y_Leon_IBS @ 1.312777
16 Italian_Abruzzo + Italian_Bergamo + Norwegian_West + Spanish_Canarias_IBS @ 1.312872
17 Ashkenazi + German-Volga + Spanish_Galicia_IBS + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.315782
18 CEU + Portugese + Romanian_Jew + Spanish_Galicia_IBS @ 1.318721
19 Dane + Maltese + Spanish_Baleares_IBS + Spanish_Castilla_y_Leon_IBS @ 1.324342
20 English_Cornwall_GBR + Greek_Peloponnesos + Spanish_Baleares_IBS + Spanish_Canarias_IBS @ 1.328435

Done.

El

[Ubirajara Jales de Lira]

How and where did they find out that they are Sephardic descent? Jessica's father is descendant of Mexicans and her mother is descendant of French-Canadians.

[Anthony Soares]

As I understand it that show does quite a bit of research, so they probably were able to trace Jessica Alba's Fathers ancestors back to either Spanish or Portuguese Shepardic Jews who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition.

[Anthony Soares]

 Very interesting,it seems the more I learn of this DNA the more confused I get but also intrigued.

Tony

[A Faria]

There is a steep learning curve to genetic genealogy being confused is good, it starts coming together after a while, this stuff is cutting edge and we're watching it all unfold. This is all kind of like when the

Makintosh personal computer first came out in 1984 it was clunky and slow. In 5-10 years we'll probably be able to look at our entire Genome and analyze it in detail.

[A Faria]

Hi Everyone,

I finally received my daughters myorigins results I had originally posted mine and both my parents results on this thread. 

My wife is also from lajes do Pico but hasn't tested yet. 

My daughters Results are.

55% Southern Europe

29% Western & Central Europe

9%   British Isles

5%   North Africa

2%   Eastern Middle East

1%   West Africa

Antonio